A Record ETF Year Takes Shape as Inflows Near $1.5 Trillion
ETF Investing Tools Investors added a whopping $91.9 billion to US-listed ETFs during the week ending Friday, Sept. 18. Year-to-date inflows now stand at around $1.47 trillion, just shy of the $1.49 trillion that flowed into ETFs during al…
The Only ETF I’d Buy Today and Not Look At Again Until 2036
Quick Read COWZ screens the Russell 1000 for the 100 highest free cash flow yields quarterly, avoiding the S&P 500's 38% tech concentration. Tech companies can spread data center costs across years in accounting, masking poor AI returns th…
Sell the Nvidia Shares That Made Your Retirement or Ride Them Into It? These 3 ETFs Are the Middle Path
Quick Read SMH holds Nvidia at 18% while spreading risk across TSMC, AMD, and Broadcom; QQQ dilutes Nvidia further to just 8% of a broader index. NVDA's 875% five-year gain and 2.2 beta have quietly turned a small allocation into a retirem…
Can These 4 Strong ETF Areas of August Gain in September?
Wall Street delivered an upbeat August. The S&P 500 advanced more than 2.5% in August, while the Nasdaq gained more than 3%. The Dow climbed about 1.3% for the month. However, Wall Street closed the month on a weaker note as renewed U.S.-I…
3 Value ETFs That Pay Solid Dividends and Keep Beating the Market This Year
Quick Read Large-cap value is beating the broader market in 2026, but VTV, COWZ, and DHS capture the rotation differently. VTV offers broad traditional value exposure, COWZ targets companies with high free-cash-flow yields, and DHS emphasi…
Your Advisor Collects 1% Every Year Whether You Make Money or Not. These 3 ETFs Fire the Middleman and Pay You Instead
Quick Read VTI and COWZ replace a 1% advisor fee with expense ratios near zero while returning 22% and 29% over the past year. A 1% AUM fee silently destroys six figures of retirement wealth over 30 years through compounding drag most inve…
This ‘Cash Cow’ ETF’s Energy Bet Just Paid Off as Brent Spiked 14% in Five Days
Quick Read COWZ surged with Brent crude's 14% five-day spike, with the fund's 16% energy weighting driving its 18% one-year gain. Exxon rose 6% during Brent's spike, backing its $20 billion buyback authorization with $8.77 billion in Q1 un…
The S&P 500 Is Up 5% This Year. This ‘Cash Cow’ Fund Is Up 9%
Quick Read COWZ trails VOO by nearly 3 percentage points year-to-date and charges 0.49% versus VOO's 0.03%, compounding the performance gap annually. COWZ's 23% Energy weighting, including ConocoPhillips, has been the primary drag on retur…
etf.com US-listed ETFs took in $44.3 billion in the week ending Friday, June 26, though the headline number is noisier than it looks. Quarter-end heartbeat trades skewed the totals, most notably a $51.4 billion inflow into the iShares Core…
Watch Out, Rising Capex Could Turn Today’s Cash Cows Into Dogs
Quick Read COWZ has returned 63% over five years, but surging capex in Energy and pharma now threatens to rotate out its current top holdings. SCHD offers similar quality-value exposure at lower cost for investors who favor dividend durabi…
Three Free Cash Flow and Quality ETFs Quietly Beating Every Other Smart Beta Strategy in 2026
Quick Read Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ) is up 9% year-to-date and 25% over the trailing year, using a mechanical screen of the Russell 1000’s 100 names with highest free cash flow yield, with top holdings including Qualcomm, Ford, CVS…
What to Know About This $8 Million Commodity ETF Buy Amid Inflation Concerns
Key Points PSI Advisors added 319,821 shares of FTGC, an estimated $8.27 million trade based on quarterly average pricing. The quarter-end stake value rose by $9.18 million, reflecting both share purchases and price changes. The move marke…
What to Know About This $8 Million Commodity ETF Buy Amid Inflation Concerns
PSI Advisors initiated a new position in the First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund(NASDAQ:FTGC), acquiring 319,821 shares in the first quarter, an estimated $8.27 million trade based on quarterly average pricing, according to…
Nomura has joined a growing list of brokerages forecasting that the U.S. Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged through 2026, pointing to stubborn inflation and limited support within the central bank for rate cuts. The brokera…
4 ETFs That Mirror Warren Buffett’s Buy-and-Hold Strategy in 2026
Quick Read VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) holds 50-60 companies with wide competitive advantages trading at discounts to fair value, with tech at 27% of the portfolio and a 0.46% expense ratio; Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ) sc…
Worried About Volatility? These 3 ETFs Have You Covered
Open bank vault with cash stacks in modern office as papers fly, symbolizing market volatility. Key Points In a turbulent market, ETFs focused on low-volatility stocks, value names, and free cash flow leaders may help to build a strong def…
Smart Move? Institutional Investor Exits Position in This Vanguard ETF
On February 9, 2026, Endowment Wealth Management reported selling out of its entire stake in Vanguard Scottsdale Funds - Vanguard Russell 1000 ETF(NASDAQ:VONE), disposing of 9,747 shares in a transaction estimated at $2.95 million based on…
Pacer’s Cash Cows ETF Might Be The Perfect ETF To Own Right Now | COWZ
Quick Read Pacer Cash Cows ETF (COWZ) surged 7% year-to-date while the S&P 500 sits flat. COWZ outperformed by nearly 20 percentage points over five years. Top holdings include Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Gilead Sciences and Merck. Healthcare re…
The final ETF flows data for 2025 is in, and it was a doozy. Nearly $1.5 trillion poured into U.S. listed ETFs during the year, with $1.49 trillion in net inflows shattering the prior annual record set in 2024. It marked the second straigh…
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the COWZ ETF (Symbol: COWZ) where we have detected an approximate $179.6 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.9%…
U.S.-listed ETFs pulled in $147.7 billion in November, according to FactSet, a massive total even if it came in below October’s record $176 billion haul. With the latest month in the books, year-to-date inflows have climbed to $1.27 trilli…
Beyond Tesla: Why GM and Ford Heavy ETFs Could Be Safer Bets Now?
Electric vehicle (EV) giant Tesla (TSLA) made a stunning comeback recently, with its third-quarter 2025 delivery numbers surging 7% year over year, comfortably surpassing the weak performance of the previous two quarters. However, this rec…
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF (Symbol: IYR) where we have detected an approximate $127.1 million dollar outflo…
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.3091
* Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (BATS:COWZ [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/COWZ]) - $0.3091 [https://www.paceretfs.com/products/cowz/#distributions]. * Payable Sep 10; for shareholders of record Sep 04; ex-div Sep 04. MORE ON PACER US CASH C…
ETF investors ramped up purchases of ETFs in July, adding just under $116 billion to U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds, the biggest monthly total of the year so far. The surge brings year-to-date net inflows to $672.8 billion, translating…
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the COWZ ETF (Symbol: COWZ) where we have detected an approximate $160.9 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.8%…
Below is Validea's ETF fundamental report for Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ). The report looks at COWZ's exposure to the major investing factors including value, quality, momentum and low volatility. Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ) is…
Every few years, an ETF that no one’s heard of catches fire. A decade ago, it was the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ) and the WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (HEDJ); a few years after that, it was the iShares MSCI USA Min Vol…
How can I stop the pain and make money in this nightmarish market? BofA says this is the ‘best hope’ for bulls in 2022
How can I stop the pain and make money in this nightmarish market? BofA says this is the ‘best hope’ for bulls in 2022 The market is in full panic mode. The S&P 500 is down 18% year to date. The Nasdaq is down a staggering 27%. And even th…
WealthPLAN Partners, LLC Buys Raytheon Technologies Corp, FT Cboe Vest Fund of Buffer ETFs, ...
Investment company WealthPLAN Partners, LLC (Current Portfolio) buys Raytheon Technologies Corp, FT Cboe Vest Fund of Buffer ETFs, Compass EMP US Small Cap High Dividend 100 Volatil, Vanguard Small Cap ETF, Polaris Inc, sells Target Corp,…